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64 relations: Administrative divisions of Myanmar, Allies of World War II, American Baptist International Ministries, Animism, Asia, Bamar people, Bhamo, Buddhism, Burmese Gurkha, Burmese Indians, Burmese language, Capital city, China, Chindits, Chinese people in Myanmar, Christian, Christianity, Computer University, Myitkyina, Confluence, Districts of Myanmar, Encyclopædia Britannica, George J. Geis, Hinduism, Humid subtropical climate, Imperial Japanese Army, Irrawaddy River, Islam, Jade, Jingpho language, Jingpo people, Joseph Stilwell, Kachin Baptist Convention, Kachin State, Köppen climate classification, Kuomintang, Laiza, Lashio Airport, Ledo Road, Mali River, Mandalay, Masaki Honda, Merrill's Marauders, Myanmar, Myanmar Standard Time, Myitkyina Airport, Myitkyina District, Myitkyina Township, Myitkyina University, N'Mai River, Nepali language, ..., Northern Combat Area Command, Port, Putao, Rail transport, Seminary, Shan people, Siege of Myitkyina, Technological University, Myitkyina, Theravada, Townships of Myanmar, Tropical savanna climate, United States, World War II, Yangon. Expand index (14 more) »
Administrative divisions of Myanmar
Myanmar is divided into twenty-one administrative subdivisions, which include: The regions were called divisions prior to August 2010, and five of them are named after their capital city, the exceptions being Ayeyarwady Region and Tanintharyi Region.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).
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American Baptist International Ministries
American Baptist International Ministries (formerly known as the American Baptist Missionary Union and the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society) is an international Protestant Christian missionary society founded in 1814 in the United States.
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Animism
Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
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Asia
Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.
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Bamar people
The Bamar (also historically the Burmese and Burmans) are the dominant ethnic group in Myanmar.
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Bhamo
Bhamo (ဗန်းမော်မြို့ ban: mau mrui., also spelt Banmaw) is a city of Kachin State in the northernmost part of Myanmar, located south from the capital city of the state of Kachin (Myitkyina).
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Burmese Gurkha
Burmese Gurkhas (ဂေါ်ရခါးလူမျိုး; गोर्खा) are a group of Nepali language speaking Burmese people of Gurkha ethnic group living in Myanmar (formerly Burma).
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Burmese Indians
Burmese Indians are a group of people of Indian origin who live in Burma.
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Burmese language
The Burmese language (မြန်မာဘာသာ, MLCTS: mranmabhasa, IPA) is the official language of Myanmar.
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Capital city
A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chindits
The Chindits, known officially as the Long Range Penetration Groups, were special operations units of the British and Indian armies, which saw action in 1943–1944, during the Burma Campaign of World War II.
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Chinese people in Myanmar
The Chinese people in Burma, Burmese Chinese, Tayoke or Sino-Burmese (မြန်မာတရုတ်လူမျိုး) are a group of overseas Chinese born or raised in Burma (Myanmar).
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Christian
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Computer University, Myitkyina
The Computer University, Myitkyina is situated in No.
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Confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.
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Districts of Myanmar
Districts (ခရိုင်) are the second-level administrative divisions of Myanmar.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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George J. Geis
The Reverend George J. Geis (c. 1860 – October 28, 1936 in Kutkai) was an American Baptist minister and anthropologist of German descent, best known for his missionary work in northeastern Burma.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.
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Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun; "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.
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Irrawaddy River
The Irrawaddy River or Ayeyarwady River (also spelt Ayeyarwaddy) is a river that flows from north to south through Myanmar.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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Jade
Jade is an ornamental mineral, mostly known for its green varieties, which is featured prominently in ancient Asian art.
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Jingpho language
Jingpho (Jinghpaw, Chingp'o) or Kachin (ကချင်ဘာသာ) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Sal branch mainly spoken in Kachin State, Burma and Yunnan, China.
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Jingpo people
The Jingpo people are an ethnic group who are the largest subset of the Kachin peoples, which largely inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Myanmar's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province of China and India's Arunachal Pradesh, which is claimed by China.
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Joseph Stilwell
Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II.
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Kachin Baptist Convention
Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) is a Myanmar Baptist denominational body whose members practice the Baptist faith.
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Kachin State
Kachin State (Kachin: Jingphaw Mungdaw; ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္) is the northernmost state of Myanmar.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kuomintang
The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.
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Laiza
Laiza (လိုင်ဇာ) is a town in the Kachin State, Myanmar, on the border with China.
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Lashio Airport
Lashio Airport is an airport in Lashio, Burma.
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Ledo Road
The Ledo Road (লিডু, လီဒိုလမ်းမကြီး) (from Ledo, Assam, India to Kunming, Yunnan, China) was an overland connection between India and China, built during World War II to enable the Western Allies to deliver supplies to China, to aid the war effort against Japan — as an alternative to the Burma Road became required, once that had been cut-off by the Japanese in 1942.
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Mali River
The Mali River (Mali Hka) is a river that originates in the hills of Kachin State, in the northern border of Myanmar.
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Mandalay
Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar (Burma).
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Masaki Honda
was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.
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Merrill's Marauders
Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a United States Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit, which fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, or China-Burma-India Theater (CBI).
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Myanmar Standard Time
Myanmar Standard Time (MMT) (မြန်မာ စံတော်ချိန်,; formerly Burma Standard Time (BST)) is the standard time in Myanmar, 6:30 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+06:30).
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Myitkyina Airport
Myitkyina Airport is an airport in Myitkyina, Burma.
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Myitkyina District
Myitkyina District (မြစ်ကြီးနားခရိုင်) is a district of the Kachin State in northern Burma (Myanmar).
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Myitkyina Township
Myitkyina Township (မြစ်ကြီးနားမြို့နယ်) is a township (sub district) of Myitkyina District in Kachin State, Burma.
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Myitkyina University
Myitkyina University is a university in northern Myitkyina, Myanmar.
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N'Mai River
The N'Mai River or N'Mai Hka (မေခမြစ်) is a river in northern Myanmar (Burma).
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Nepali language
Nepali known by endonym Khas-kura (खस कुरा) is an Indo-Aryan language of the sub-branch of Eastern Pahari.
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Northern Combat Area Command
The Northern Combat Area Command or NCAC was a subcommand of the Allied South East Asia Command (SEAC) during World War II.
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Port
A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.
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Putao
Putao (ပူတာအိုမြို့) is the northernmost town of Kachin State, Myanmar.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Seminary
Seminary, school of theology, theological seminary, Early-Morning Seminary, and divinity school are educational institutions for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture, theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy, academia, or ministry.
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Shan people
The Shan (တႆး;, ရှမ်းလူမျိုး;; ไทใหญ่ or ฉาน) are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.
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Siege of Myitkyina
The Siege of Myitkyina was an engagement during the Burma Campaign of World War II.
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Technological University, Myitkyina
Technological University, Myitkyina (နည်းပညာတက္ကသိုလ် (မြစ်ကြီးနား)) is located in Kachin State, Myitkyina City, Myanmar.
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Theravada
Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.
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Townships of Myanmar
Townships (မြို့နယ်) are the third-level administrative divisions of Myanmar.
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Tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yangon
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myitkyina
